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Bug#753406: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.7.3-1 [ITP] -- SQL client library for GNUstep



On 15-07-14 21:16, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Paul Gevers wrote:
>>> libsqlclient1.7 - SQL client library for GNUstep (runtime library)
>>
>> This package contains files in an unversioned sub-directory of /usr/lib/
>> This is a violation of Debian policy §8.2
> 
> Right, I totally missed that...
> 
> I'm not sure how to fix this.  The bundles are dynamically opened by
> the library, it is useless without them.  Putting them in a separate
> unversioned package won't work as it is because it would still make
> two versions of the library impossible to coexist.  Unless they don't
> link with the library, in which case there's still the valid scenario
> when the API changes and the old library is unable to load or work
> with the new bundles.
> 
> I'd appreciate any suggestions.

I assume you read the sentences in the policy after my quote. Why
wouldn't that work for this package, i.e. put the files in a
sub-directory of /usr/lib/libsqlclient1.7/? Is the location of these
Bundles so hard-coded that they can't be relocated?

Paul

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